hough, he got his life back together enough that he moved back to Vienna in late 1788 to early 1789 in hopes of again finding better luck.Moving on, Mozart's professional life seems to be quite uneventful during 1787. Mozart seems to withdraw himself from society. One author even stated that in the autumn and winter "so little appears to be happening that one begins to wonder how Mozart spends his days"(unknown). Looking at the list of works that he finished in 1788 it can pretty much be inferred that he is spending most of his time at home composing. This raises the question of who Mozart was doing all of this composing for. Looking at commissions, it can be seen that there really are not any; along the lines of employment, activity seems to be kept at a minimal; publishing also appears to have been kept rather stagnant; and performances seemed to be the only small thing that Mozart was falling back on.Joseph Starzer died in 1787 and Mozart was appointed his role of the director of Sweiten's oratorio concerts. In fact, Barron van Sweiten liked what Mozart was doing so much that he had Wolfgang add to and alter Handel's piece Acisund Galatea in November of 1788. The piece came out so well that Sweiten decides to have Mozart do the same thing to a couple of other pieces later on in his life. Also during this year a virtual collapse in Mozart's concert audience can be seen throughout his performances. On top of that, not only were his subscription attempts in June of this year a failure, but his subsequent promotions did not seem to far any better. When the performances from 1788 are assayed we find that Mozart mainly covers someone else's pieces along with performing one of his operas. The piece that he conducted is C.P.E. Bach's Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu that is performed on March fourth. The opera that is put on was one that Mozart had written just a year before: Don Giovanni. Although it has been performed previ...
